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Also by Robert Gottlieb:

Great Expectations, December 2012
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Sarah, October 2010
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GREAT EXPECTATIONS
By: Robert Gottlieb

The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
December 2012
On Sale: November 27, 2012
257 pages
ISBN: 0374298807
EAN: 9780374298807
Kindle: B008MWL9IK
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography

The strange and varied lives of the ten children of the world’s most beloved novelist

Charles Dickens, famous for the indelible child characters he created—from Little Nell to Oliver Twist and David Copperfield—was also the father of ten children (and a possible eleventh). What happened to those children is the fascinating subject of Robert Gottlieb’s Great Expectations. With sympathy and understanding he narrates the highly various and surprising stories of each of Dickens’s sons and daughters, from Kate, who became a successful artist, to Frank, who died in Moline, Illinois, after serving a grim stretch in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Each of these lives is fascinating on its own. Together they comprise a unique window on Victorian England as well as a moving and disturbing study of Dickens as a father and as a man.

Media Buzz

Diane Rehm Show - NPR - December 24, 2012
Fresh Air - NPR - December 7, 2012
Diane Rehm Show - NPR - December 3, 2012